From: | Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com> |
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To: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres |
Date: | 2006-05-18 10:56:02 |
Message-ID: | 446C52C2.7050304@secdat.com |
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Florian Weimer wrote:
>* Kenneth Downs:
>
>
>
>>If you seek to provide a closed source app that is built upon
>>Andromeda, you are required to provide the source code to Andromeda
>>itself. However, your app is not a derivative work in the strict
>>sense because your code is not mixed in with mine in any sense. You
>>never modify a file, and your files and mine are actually in separate
>>directories.
>>
>>
>
>Many proprietary software vendors think that if you program to an
>interface which has a sole implementation, your code becomes a derived
>work of that implementation. If you sell different licenses for
>run-time and development environments, such an attitude towards
>copyright law seems inevitable.
>
>
I am not understanding you. By sole implementation do you mean sole
license, or single codebase, or cant-run-without-the-library?
The last sentence I don't understand at all, can you elaborate?
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